He has exhibited and screened work in venues across the UK and internationally, including the recent exhibitions Possession at Bangkok Cultural and Arts Centre (2013), Deadpan Exchange VIII at Casa Maauad, Mexico City (2014), and Sluice__2015 at Oxo Tower Wharf, London (2015). He has participated in the digital art festivals FutureEverything in Manchester (2010) and Piksel in Bergen (2009), and has undertaken residencies with Hull Time-based Arts (2005) and PVA Medialab (2009) in the UK, and with Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder (2011) in Trondheim, Norway.
His Ph.D. research is concerned with experiences of distractibility that are said to have emerged alongside the recent widespread adoption of digital communications technologies. Should compulsive engagement with digital media best be seen as ‘information overload’, or as a desirable retreat into enjoyable technological distraction? How might the way digital systems are understood—as data streams or cloud processes—impact on the way we attend to them, or how they algorithmically attend to us?
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